Self-Organized Flocking with a Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Swarm

ECAL 2011: The 11th European Conference on Artificial Life

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Stranieri, A ^a   Ferrante, E ^a   Turgut, A E ^a   Trianni, V ^a   Pinciroli, C ^a   Birattari, M ^a   Dorigo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOTS;

HEADING DIRECTIONS; MOBILE ROBOT SWARMS; PERFORMANCE; SELF-ORGANISED; SYSTEMATIC SIMULATION;

SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 85153067656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-29714-1-ch119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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